1996
Estonia As a Sign. 4th annual exhibition of the Soros Centre for Contemporary Arts in Estonia. Curated by Ants Juske.
Anu Põder’s installation, Pattern–Time–Image, at Vaal Gallery. Photos: Archive of Reet Varblane (1), Toomas Kohv (2) Peeter Langovits/Postimees/Scanpix Baltics (3, 4, 5).
How would it be possible to move in time along a line of intersection and reveal thus the body of a human being, of a nation? Light has communicated with the body for a long time.
Light reveals form. Light is around and above. It takes a section of a body. The section remains a prisoner of light. It is an intimate relationship.
A sign is born, which is sensitive to the pulse of the body.
Moving along the intersection back in time, we could realise what the body might have felt.
We see the physiological peculiarities of the body. We can see how the body has reached a compromise confronted by fashion, traditions, set principles, taboos.
The texture of a nation, its construction, architecture and utilitarity has grown out of the surface of its skin. It has been instructed by the warmth of the body, its mobility, vanity, sense of beauty, passion, joy, sorrow.
Anu Põder’s installation, Pattern–Time–Image, at Vaal Gallery. Photos: Archive of Reet Varblane (1), Toomas Kohv (2) Peeter Langovits/Postimees/Scanpix Baltics (3, 4, 5).
How would it be possible to move in time along a line of intersection and reveal thus the body of a human being, of a nation? Light has communicated with the body for a long time.
Light reveals form. Light is around and above. It takes a section of a body. The section remains a prisoner of light. It is an intimate relationship.
A sign is born, which is sensitive to the pulse of the body.
Moving along the intersection back in time, we could realise what the body might have felt.
We see the physiological peculiarities of the body. We can see how the body has reached a compromise confronted by fashion, traditions, set principles, taboos.
The texture of a nation, its construction, architecture and utilitarity has grown out of the surface of its skin. It has been instructed by the warmth of the body, its mobility, vanity, sense of beauty, passion, joy, sorrow.